Robert Neville wrote:
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I don;t see how that is possible, considering that neither of them are
on any contiguous territory with other parts of the United States.

Are there any underwater tunnels between islands in Hawai'i?

Even if there were, it wouldn't matter as it would still be one state. And of
course were talking about the Interstate Highway System...

Trivia question (no fair Googling the answer): What was the primary
justification/purpose of the Interstate Highway System?

Those of you who answered movement of military troops within the
continental United States are good on the justification but wrong on
the purpose. It was the height of the Cold War. If you wanted to spend
humongous bucks on internal improvements, you called your program "defense".
The highway bill that authorized interstate highways even had the word
"defense" in its title.

It was never funded by military nor civil defense monies.

There were several reasons, among them, break the railroad monopoly on
freight and passenger transportation, another popular myth in America
where the Granger Movement never ended.

Eisenhower always claimed that he wanted interstates to go around
metropolitan areas and not through them, but major cities and metropolitan
counties had already constructed freeways before the federal highway
bill became law, so it's impossible to believe him. This is the same
guy whose farewell address lamented the power of the military-industrial
complex, even though his administration gave it its power during peacetime.

Why cities wanted them is bizarre, aside from the usual desire to spend
massive amounts of money. There was pent-up demand for suburbanization
and sprawl, which had started in earnest in the late '20's, coming to
a screaching halt with the start of the Great Depression. This took the
cork out of the bottle, resulting in dilapidated housing in cities not
being replaced as populations increased in metropolitan areas as a whole
but mainly at the fringes.

Whoops.